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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more ext

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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